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Excerpt from The Subject of Tract XC: Examined in Connection With the History of the Thirty-Nine Articles, and the Statements of Certain English Divines, to Which Is Added, the Case of Bishop Mountague in the Reign of King James I
It is plain that members of Convocation may quite consistently vote against the third of these proposi tions, Who are yet favourable to the first, and even to the second; for it is conceivable that many members of our Church may object to the proposed restriction upon the sense of the Articles (amounting, in fact, to a new test, and that too emanating from one only of the Universities, without the previous sanction of the Church of England), Who may yet be quite un prepared to acquiesce in the interpretation for which Mr. Ward contends. The majority of English church men, it need hardly be observed, accept the formal de cisions of the Church, as they say, in its undivided state (ln contradistinction from those of the later Roman Church), as the standard of doctrine in the Church of England; and many of these persons, it is evident, might very possibly wish to accompany their vote against the proposed Test by a disavowal of the extent of latitude which, in the selected passages, Mr. Ward claims in behalf of himself and others Who sub scribe the Articles. Nor, again, does even Tract 90 itself, though incidentally bearing upon Tridentine doctrine, undertake to defend the right of subscrip tion according to nir. Ward's extreme theory, but merely as it was long ago asserted by Archbishop Laud, and other great divines of the Reformed Church of England.
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